Collapse of Western Civilization

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The year is 2393, and a senior scholar of the Second People's Republic of China presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the Enlightenment, the political and economic elites of the so-called advanced industrial societies, entered into a Penumbral period in the early decades of the twenty-first century, a time when sound science and rational discourse about global change were prohibited and clear warnings of climate catastrophe were ignored. What ensues when soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, drought, and mass migrations disrupt the global governmental and economic regimes? The Great Collapse of 2093. Based on sound scholarship yet unafraid to tilt at sacred cows in both science and policy, this book provides a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate change literature. It includes a lexicon of historical and scientific terms that enriches the narrative and an interview with the authors.

Über den Autor

Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. Her 2004 essay "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change," cited by Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth (2006), led to op-ed pieces in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and to Congressional testimony in the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. With Erik Conway, she is the author of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.

Erik M. Conway is a historian of science and technology employed by the California Institute of Technology. He recently received a NASA History award for "path-breaking contributions to space history, ranging from aeronautics to Earth and space sciences," and an AIAA History Manuscript Award for his fourth book, Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Coming of the Penumbral Age
2. The Frenzy of Fossil Fuels
3. Market Failure
Epilogue
Lexicon of Archaic Terms
Interview with the Authors
Notes
About the Authors

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780231169547
ISBN-10:	023116954X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Klappenbroschur
Autor:	Oreskes, Naomi Conway, Erik
Hersteller:	Columbia Univers. Press
Abbildungen:	1 maps
Maße:	170 x 118 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Naomi Oreskes (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.08.2014
Gewicht:	0,106 kg

Artikel-ID: 105446176

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Coming of the Penumbral Age
2. The Frenzy of Fossil Fuels
3. Market Failure
Epilogue
Lexicon of Archaic Terms
Interview with the Authors
Notes
About the Authors

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780231169547
ISBN-10:	023116954X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Klappenbroschur
Autor:	Oreskes, Naomi Conway, Erik
Hersteller:	Columbia Univers. Press
Abbildungen:	1 maps
Maße:	170 x 118 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Naomi Oreskes (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.08.2014
Gewicht:	0,106 kg